On 28 Feb 2004 20:01:29 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:


And while I'm out of your kill-file and you seem enthused enough to
address your own contradictions on such subjects, please remind me of
your personal experience of Geoffrey Chaucer. Or feel free to run
away from that one again if you prefer. I used to think you behaved
like that online for laugh, but I must admit I'm starting to think you
actually aren't that far removed from the more unpleasant side of your
usenet persona. Pity.

PLONK!

That's right, Arthur, run away yet again. The laughable thing is that
this just demonstrates that what you're running away from is the
unwelcome task of confronting your own posted opinions in regard to
yourself. Evidently a man who had the guts to fight at great personal
risk in WW2 doesn't have the guts to apply the same intellectual
standards to himself as he likes to impose upon others on usenet sixty
years later. I find that rather sad.

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From: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised )
Subject: #1 Jet of World War II
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Date: 2003-07-05 06:05:45 PST

If you really want to play with your own straw men so much, tell me
about your personal, first-hand knowledge of Geoffrey Chaucer. It's
only right.

Gavin Bailey

You tell me yours. I'll tell you mine.

I have no-first hand experience of Geoffrey Chaucer in person
whatsoever.

Your turn.

Gavin Bailey

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[Silence....]

So, what price all those rants about the supremacy of your direct
experience over those who read books about it again? Or did you
actually participate in late medieval pilgrimages from Bermondsey to
Canterbury yourself then? If not, Arthur Kramer has some interesting
opinions about wannabes such as you.

Gavin Bailey